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Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck, 1778-82

a Gothic story

James Boswell · Joseph (ed) Reed · Frederick (ed) Pottle

June 15, 1977 · Hardcover · McGraw-Hill · 570 pp

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First edition · ISBN 9780070515208 · English · GB · Dewey 828/.6/09 · LC PR3325 .A795 1977

Biography

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It's 1778, Boswell is now aproaching his 40th birthday, married with three young children and a fourth on its way. His father, the laird of Auchinleck, is ill and dying. Boswell himself is full of both the doubts of middle age and the pleasures of family life. Far removed from the rakish, scholarly and amorous adventures described in earlier journals, Boswell, Laird of Auchinleck records Boswell's daily trials and incidents as he struggles to manage the family estate of Auchinleck in Ayrshire. Full of momentary detail and flashes of self-knowledge, Boswell's journal is an insight into the mind of the mature diarist.

More in The Yale editions of the private papers of James Boswell

Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide) Boswell in Holland, 1763-1764, including his correspondence with Belle de Zuylen (Zelide) 1952 · Hardcover Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764 1953 · Hardcover Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766. 1955 Boswell in search of a wife, 1766-1769; 1956 Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776. Boswell: The Ominous Years, 1774-1776. 1963 English Experiment, 1785-89 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) 1987 · Hardcover

More by James Boswell

Boswell for the Defense 1769-1774 Boswell for the Defense 1769-1774 Hardcover The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 1791 · Hardcover Boswell's Life of Johnson (3 Volumes) 1901 · Hardcover Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson Abridged from James Boswell's Complete Text and from "The Tour of the Hebrides. Everybody's Boswell: Being the Life of Samuel Johnson Abridged from James Boswell's Complete Text and from "The Tour of the Hebrides. 1930 · Hardcover Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 1936 · Hardcover Boswell's London Journal 1762-1763 1950 · Hardcover Boswell on the grand tour: Germany and Switzerland, 1764; 1953 Boswell on the grand tour: Italy, Corsica, and France, 1765-1766. 1955 Boswell in search of a wife, 1766-1769; 1956 The Heart of Boswell 1982 · Paperback English Experiment, 1785-89 (Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell) 1987 · Hardcover The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795 1992 · Hardcover Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 1993 · Hardcover Essential Boswell, The 2003 · Hardcover The Life of Samuel Johnson 2017 · Audiobook The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D 2022 · Ebook

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